Sentences with phrase «once obdurate»

Von Heyl's best paintings are at once obdurate objects and elusive phantoms.

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It is easy, of course, once a conceptual dualism of this kind has been established, to argue that culture can not be understood sociologically unless it is «explained» in terms of social structure — unless the «sources» or «causes» of religious beliefs are located within such obdurate features of the social world as class interests, power relations, social networks, family backgrounds, and the like.